Mikel Gurrea’s “Sants,” starring “The Beloved” star Vicky Luengo, joins San Sebastian’s important competitors alongside Berto Romero’s time-loop relationship comedy “5 Minutes Extra” and Roberto Bueso’s household comedy-drama “El mal padre.”
Additionally chosen for this 12 months’s San Sebastián Competition, “El Castillo”, carried out out of competitors, can be composed by Isabel Peña, common co-writer of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Eduardo Villanueva, who co-wrote with them Sorogoyen’s first profitable sequence, “Riot Police”.
San Sebastián, in September, would be the final to be led by the director of San Sebastián, José Luis Rebordinos. As he ready to current all 23 Spanish titles at this 12 months’s competition, he acquired standing applause from your entire trade viewers on the unveiling in Madrid.
With the three greatest premium Spanish movies of the 12 months, Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Beloved,” Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bitter Christmas” and Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s “The Black Ball,” all chosen for the primary competitors at Cannes, this 12 months’s collection of Spanish titles in San Sebastian is rather less apparent.
Nevertheless, “Black Ball” is being screened in Perlak.
For instance, that is the primary time that Romero and Bueso are competing for the competition’s Golden Shell.
That stated, this 12 months’s programming affords the chance for discoveries: “’Esa soledad’, by Javier Giner, director of the Disney+ sequence ‘I, Adict’, and ‘El mal hijo’, by ‘Cash Heist’ star Jaime Lorente, are first function movies.
It would additionally enable administrators who deserve extra consideration to share extra of the highlight. Basque director David Pérez Sañudo steps in with by far his greatest movies up to now: the historic serial killer thriller “The Harvester”; after having impressed with “The Legal guidelines of the Border”, Daniel Monzón returns to San Sebastián with “Priez pour nous”, a blinding denunciation of a little-known aspect of Franco’s repression.
Behind an outstanding program of sequence – “The New 12 months”, “La Mesías· and “The Anatomy of a Second” and “Sirāt”, “Le Beloved” and “Le Bal Noir” on the cinema, Movistar+ could have a powerful presence in San Sebastián, producing or co-producing “5 Minutes Extra” and “El Castillo”.
Atresmedia Cine returns this 12 months with a sequence of alternatives. Arcadia Movement Photos, behind the Oscar-nominated “Robotic Desires” and Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” is producing “Pray for Us.”
The choice can even function a showcase for a few of Spain’s greatest performing skills. Eduard Fernández “Smokes & Mirrors” performs for instance in “El Mal Padre”.
A better take a look at this 12 months’s Spanish titles on the San Sebastian Movie Competition, the largest movie occasion within the Spanish-speaking world.
Fundamental competitors
“5 extra minutes” (Javier Ruiz Caldera)
Headlined by “Discuss with Her” are Javier Cámara and Goya winner Belén Cuesta and directed by Ruíz Caldera (“Wolfgang”), however it’s actually a movie from writer-star Berto Romero mixing style and his trademark humor as one in all Spain’s greatest comedians. He did this very nicely in 2023 with the horror TV sequence “The Different Aspect”. Right here he turns to low-fi sci-fi in a darkish and horror fantasy comedy-thriller as a pair on the rocks are caught in a time loop throughout a countryside getaway. Produced by Movistar+, Ikiru Flms and El Terrat from Mediapro Studio; Filmax manages world gross sales.
“The Dangerous Father” (Roberto Bueso)
A household comedy-drama from Mod Producciones (“Agora,” “Biutiful,” “The Captive”), Atresmedia (“The Black Ball”), Misent Producciones and Bueso, behind the 2022 hit “Filled with Grace.” Eduard Fernández, four-time winner of the Goya of the Spanish Academy and winner of greatest actor in San Sebastian (“Smokes & Mirrors”), performs, in response to the Spanish press, the function of a well-known author who asks his separated youngsters one final want: to spend Christmas collectively in the home the place they spent the summer season as youngsters.
“Saints”, (Mikel Gurrea)
Luengo, additionally in Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas, performs a younger lady struggling to look after her dying mom, who joins forces with a gang of thieves who steal statues from church buildings and cemeteries. After Clara Simón’s Berlin Golden Bear, “Alcarràs”, Lastor Media and Italian firm Kino Produzione are teaming up for “Sants”, in manufacturing with Nocturna Photos. The second outing for Gurrea, who impressed together with his first participant within the San Sebastian competitors, Suro.
Out of Competitors
“The fort” (Creators: Isabel Peña, Eduardo Villanueva; directed by Elena Martín, Sandra Romero)
The fictional chronicle of the real-life transformation of the Spanish roadside brothel commerce into large-scale organized crime. That is what the POV tells of its creation, a particular police unit that seeks to dismantle it, and one in all its victims, a intercourse employee, Peña stated. Movistar+ produces with Caballo Movies, behind “The Beasts”. Elena Martín, director of the Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight successful movie “Creatura”, and Sandra Romero (“As Silence Passes By”) are directing the movie.
Particular screenings
“Past society” (“Past society”, JABayona, Carles Torrens)
Choosing up from “The Snow Society,” the sequence tells the story of how survivors of the 1972 airplane crash returned dwelling to hitch the households of those that died. A 3-part non-fiction sequence created by Bayona and Torres and produced by Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida and JA Bayona.
“The Harvester” (“Sacamantecas”, David Pérez Sañudo)
Starring Antonio de la Torre (“God Save Us”) and Patricia López Arnaíz (“Sundays”) and impressed by the 1870s story of Spain’s first documented serial killer. Boasting meticulous 1870s-era development and a funds of 10 million euros ($11.5 million) – notably excessive for Spain, produced by La Claqueta and Amania Movies and a step up for director Pérez Sañudo, whose debut movie “Ane is Lacking” was already notable for its fluid use of style. Latido Movies sells.
“Pray for us” (“Pray for us”, Daniel Monzón)
1974 After an evening spent on the tile flooring, 19-year-old Ana is shipped by her rich household to the Spanish Council for the Safety of Girls, a state-supported Francoist establishment that locks up younger girls underneath the guise of ethical “reform”. Monzón’s newest, usually underrated (“Cell 211,” “Border Legal guidelines”), is backed by Arcadia Movement Photos, behind the Oscar-nominated “Robotic Desires” and Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts.” Taken over by Movie Manufacturing facility Leisure for worldwide distribution, Elastica for Spanish distribution.
New administrators
“This loneliness” (Javier Giner)
Giner’s first function movie, as soon as once more partnered with star Oriol Plá. right here with Marina Salas (“El Barco”), in a portrait of the “existential void in a fragmented and chaotic current” of the millennium, Giner stated. Offered by Filmax and produced by Fuga de cuerpos, AIE, Steadiness Media Leisure, La Embajada TV and Basajaun Filmak.
“The unhealthy son” (Jaime Lorente)
Lorente’s function movie directorial debut is Denver in “Cash Heist,” an adaptation of a novel by Salvador S. Molina, screenwriter of such Bambú productions as “Jaguar” and “13 Exorcisms.” Set in Murcia, a coming-of-age story during which a half-Gitano boy is deserted by his father and goes to stay together with his grandmother, who has kidnapped his father. Produced by Frank Ariza at AF.
Latin Horizons
“Ashes” (, Diego Luna)
In particular screening at Cannes, “Ardor”, Luna’s fifth function movie as director, based mostly on the novel by Branda Navarro, a uncooked and uncooked story of uprooting, disconnection and each day hostility, with “Eugenia Perez”, co-awarded at Cannes for greatest actress, Anna Diaz and Adriana Paz, sees younger Lucia leaving Mexico along with her youthful brother to hitch her mom in Madrid.
Zabaltegi
“Crimson rocks” (Bruno Dumont)
Filmed on the French Riviera, two teams of youngsters compete in cliff leaping whereas Romeo and Juliet benefit from the flowers amongst them. The most recent from Dumont, two-time winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes (“L’Humanité”, “Flanders”), premiered on the Administrators’ Fortnight at this 12 months’s French competition.
Pearl
“The black ball” (Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo)
A winner of the Greatest Director award at Cannes and the topic of prolonged applause at its premiere and a serious Netflix pickup in the USA. Starring Penelope Cruz and Glenn Shut in an ensemble drama wealthy with new Spanish expertise, it interweaves the story of three homosexual males in 1932, 1937 and 2017 with a novel simply begun by Federico Lorca when it was carried out in 1936.
Velodrome
“Karateka” (Aritz Moreno)
Moreno’s third movie, which broke out with an unreliable meta narrator, was an EFA nominee “Advantages of Touring by Prepare” (2019). Right here, the larger-than-life true story of Spanish karate queen and Olympic gold medalist Sandra Sánchez is advised, promising “a powerful visible model.” Included in Selection(Prime 10 Spanish producers to observe in 2023), Leire Apellaniz, co-founder of Senõr y Señora, produces with Atresmedia Cine.